“Apostate officials and institutions remain a legitimate target for the Mujahideen and so are foreign delegates who prop up the apostate regime.”

The terrorists tried to ram a car laden with explosives in a military convoy of a Qatari delegation. The Quataris were not harmed as the car they were travelling was bullet proof.

Al Shabaab said “foreign delegates who wish to salvage the reputation of the crumbling regime with some political endorsement do so at their own peril,” a statement aimed at intimidating visitors to the war-torn country.

The group further took blame for another another explosion that targeted a military convoy in Mogadishu’s Dayniile district, killing 5 and injuring more.

The militants said the attacks were inspired by the “advice of Sheikh Abu Zubeyr, the Mujahideen.”